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Judith Pamela Butler [1] (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, [2] queer theory, [3] and literary theory.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity [1] [2] is a book by the post-structuralist gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler in which the author argues that gender is performative, meaning that it is maintained, created or perpetuated by iterative repetitions when speaking and interacting with each other.
Butler examines gender, sex, psychoanalysis, and the way medicine and the law treat intersex and transgender people. [1] Focusing on the case of David Reimer who was born male and reassigned to be raised as a girl after a botched circumcision, Butler reexamines the theory of performativity that they originally explored in Gender Trouble (1990).
Judith Butler. April 21, 2021 at 7:00 AM. A hazy view on the approach to Dubai International Airport. A hazy view on the approach to Dubai International Airport. Credit - Thomas Prior.
Parting Ways draws from the writings of Edward Said, Emmanuel Levinas, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, and Mahmoud Darwish.Butler argues that cohabitation with other groups is a core part of Jewish history and identity, and that Israel and Palestine are inextricably linked.
While Butler ultimately calls for a rejection of standard Hegelianism, this moving forward itself represents a triumph for Hegel's dialectical method of the negation of difference. [1] Influenced by psychoanalysis, Butler sees the subject as having to lose identity before becoming itself. The sense of self is lost in desire, as desire is a pull ...
As Rubin would say in a later interview with Judith Butler: "It [Lévi-Strauss] completely blew my mind." [10] In addition, Rubin was then reading the newly emergent strands of post-structuralist theory from French intellectuals. [10] The paper arose from several drafts of a term paper for a course she was taking with Sahlins.
— Judith Butler, Your Behavior Creates Your Gender (2011) Thus, Butler perceives gender as being constructed through a set of acts that are said to be in compliance with dominant societal norms. Butler is, however, not stating that gender is a sort of performance in which an individual can terminate the act; instead, what Butler is stating is ...